Hoisting and conveying machine.



E. W. TAYLOR.

HOISTING AND CONVEYING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY4, 1912.

Patented Aug; 13, 1912.

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nmvns'r w. TAYLOR, or cnnvnmnn, 01110, assienon To THE snows: nois'rme MACHINERY COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPQRAIION.

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- To all whom it may co'Twern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST W. TAYLOR,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and- State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hoisting and Conveying Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, referencebeinghad to the accompanying drawings,

forming a part of the specification, wherein similar parts are designated bysimilarfig-. ures in each case.

The improvement in question belongs more especially to the class of overhead tramway devices for picking up freight,

and other material, moving the same to storage or shipping points along theline of travel, and there depositingthe packages or loads within cars, warehouses or at other destined receiving points.

As designed the present invention is adapted for construction and use either as is a trolleyof an independent instrument, or 3S t.=, 3l 1' ancillary feature to other apparatus: that to-.. gether form a general material handling system and unitary whole.

In the several figures Figure 1, is a side elevation showing the median loading or unloading position of the apparatus in the full lines, and, indicating, by dotted lines, the limit of movement of the same on either side of the full-line position.- Fig. 2 is a plan view of the apparatus as. shown in Fig.

Fig.3 is an end'view'of the apparatus as shown in Fig. 1, and, Fig. 4 is an enlonged-sectional view of a portion of the turn-table feature entering into the construction. f I

As shown, the improvement in question involves an overhead tramway, comprising twopairallel tracks, indicated by 1, 1', and any suitable firamework or supporting structure therefor, as the floor-timbers of a warehouse, or other building, trestle-work, or

.bridgetraineray.v Mountedupon and adapt- 7 ed to travel on said; tracks 1, 1, and maintain the chief operative teatures of the device, therusua]. type for the purposes involved, and, swinging-from and oolmeeted to the same by the hanger-pieces 5 and the track-wheels 6, is a rectangular flame-work made up of the side-beams 2,: 2,. end-beans 3,.3 and'cross-beams 4,3. 7, 7, indicate the cross-axles by which said wheels are jouhanger-pimes 5 naled in the Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug 13, 1912. A ummmm Kay 4, 1912. Serial No. 695,148.

frame-work below and firmly fastened to the cross-beams 4, is a. circular I-beam track sides of the webs of the circular channel- 'b'eams ll-and l2, and the upper ends of the same being fastened to the axles of the truck-wheels 9. Rigidly fastened to and across the under sides of the channel-beams 11 and 12 of-the frame-work 10, is a recv8, and below, and suspended from the lower flanges of the track 8, by means oft-ruck- 'wheels 9, 9 is a rotatable circular frametangnlar frame-work 15, fromthe side mem bers of which is hung a downwardly extending frame-work structure consisting of four pairs of quadratically arranged hangerrods or bars 18; one pair at. each corner, pivotallyattached to the framework 15,1'1ear the front 'portion'thereof, at their upper-"ends, andattheir lower ends, at the-samedistanc'e, one from the at'the top, to longitudinal beams 19, constituting the side members of a reciprocating platform or frame-work. l6,below. Said beams are firmly connected-togethei' at each end by end-beams 20, and, asshowmextend other, as

forwardly of the up and down or normal portion of the hanger-bars 18. 21, 22 23 and24, on the side of the device exposed in Fig. 1, indicate the pins by which the hanger-bars are thus" pivotally' connected to p the upper frame-work 155-011 the one hand,

and the-lower longitudinalbeams 19, on the other. Near the forward end of" the rec tangular frame-work 16-,o which the beams 19am the sides, are located, next to said beams, hoist-sheaves 17,. On. the pins 21 and 22,1111 the frame-work 15, between each pairof hanger-bars 18, are sheaves 25nd- 26 the sheaves 25 occupying, the pins 21,. and thesheaves'flfi occu g the pins 22,.mnd, on the '23, three h the beams 19, exteriorly of the-hanger rs 18 in each case, and in alinement, respectively, with the sheaves 17 are sheaves '27, 27. Reeve'd through the duplicate systems ofi sheaves, just described, are hoist-ropes 28-, 28, whose outer ends are attached to the outer ends of the beams, 19,- and, which extend thencesaid frame-work 16, additional reciprocat-. ing ropes 33, 33, are-severally attached tothe pins24, and passed to and operatively around the circular thence backwardly to a V of the frame-work and res ectively passing frame-work 10, and

'35, and, a motor for actuatin t sition as slli'own inthe full l nes of Fig POSItlOHtO pro-' 16 inwardley the parall downwardly around sheaves 29, in the crate 37 to be hoisted, thence upwardly around the sheaves 17, backwardly to and under the sheaves 27, 27, to and around a drum 30, each case, in the frame-work 15, where they are made fast.

- To efiect the forward oscillation of the frame-Work 16, upon the pins 21 and 22, a pair of reciprocating ropes 31, 81, are attached to the pins 24, n alinement with, to and over the sheaves 5, thence toand beneath the sheaves to drums 32, 32 locatedon the framework 15 to which they are fastened, and, to efiect the desired backward oscillation of I upwardly and made. fast to drums 34 located on the frame-work 15 for'the purpose.

A turntable actuatmg drum '35 is located.

centrally of the trolley, near the front end of. the same, from which a rope 36 extends suitable fastening point in said drum. An operators cab, in which are machine, is indicated in the figures (by .38)

the drum e hoisting escribed, are

tion-motor, a motor for'actuatin and reciprocating ropes, as also indicated, by, respect vely, 39, 40 and 41.

It-will be apparent that a mac ebuilt up in the manner, and according to the plan hereinbefore illustrated and explained, will be capable of a variety of movements and. adaptable to many difierent sltuatlons and uses; By reason of the turn-table feature of'the same, a load maybe taken on or released at any oint around the machine and in any directlon desired, while,by reason of the peculiar formation and connections.

16, such load may be handled at pointsnormal limlts of reached for and positively considerably beyondthe said rotatory movement. In the medianpm of sand reciprocating frame-work 16,

war end of the s' e'is ject into a box-car, and enga eav ackage or crate therein; by now actuating e drum n 34, the ropes 33, 33; ma 111 will drawlinwardly t be-woun ,which around their respective pivots at 21 and 22. This will at once oscillate the frame-work and upwardly, and, of a relation of the ac tion will charaotenze the movement of the frame-work 16 '1 and, the-latter, with its load, guidedupwardly, in this relative located all the levers and parts necessary to actuate and control the variousmovements of said -work 'forengaging scribed.

' bera tramway connected .on said inemberfor enga loads so engag rec1proca' ber about the. ivbta'l pointsgyms said cone hanging'bars 18 eral bars 18 I to each other,. .a corresponding parallel mo-' position, to any distance desir'ed beneath' the frame-work15. The. operation will, of course, be reversed when a lowering is to be effected.

It is evident that the recise manner ofmaking up my machine ereinf set forth is not essential to the invention, broadly con- A sidered. It is capable of variation in sev-v eral respects, in the several details involved.-

lnstead for instance-of pivoted bars-to con chains or other flexible means -.may be employed, and single partscan be substituted in place oflthose shown 'in duplicate, and although, the claims-designate the frame- 3 I work'16 as suspended from the 'trolley'this. should not necessarily be restricted to a direct suspension from the trolley and as not including a suspension from the intermediate parts 15, 8 and 10. I, s

Havin thus described my invention, as the same is embodied in a concrete form and apparatus, what I claim and wish to cover by Letters Patent, is; z x.

1. The combination with an r'overhead 9o tramway, of a trolley mounted thereon, a I reciprocating frame-work pivotally connected to and beneath the same .at uidis-- tant points, suitable mearis on said amer-i thereby, and suitable means for "hoisting and lowering loads soenga ed, and for re pro-. v eating said frame-wor about said pivotal points, substantially as 'shown and de-.

2. The combination, with an overhead tramway, of a trolley mounted thereon, a reciprocating member flexibly connected to and beneath the same by parallelly arranged hangers, suitable means on said member for engaging loads, and suitable. means for hoisting. and lowering loads so en'gaggl, and for reciprocating said rnenint the'points of its sai connection, substantially as shown and'described. l 3.'The. combination with an overhead jt'ramway,"of a hoisting and conveying ma chine, comprising a trolley inounted'on said v a reci rocatin membi"Tpiv6t;flly

allelly arranged'hanger-bars, suitable means hoisted and conveyed, an suitable means; for, severally, ho sting and lowering the said main the; trolley Ion;

said tramway,

. 76 5 Y Y nect the upper and lower frame-works, l"

as f

loads -to be handled toan beneat .the same'by-par 1 4. Thai-combination, 'wit h Q way, Ij i nw r c chinemounted thereon, comprising a rotatory trolley, 'a reciprocating pivotally connected and beneath thesame b hanger-bars,

means on said member for engaging loads to be lfiolsted' as]? cinveyed, anllsuitable means or, save y, olsting an ow the loads so engaged, reciprocating: member about the pivotal points of its said connection, rotating said trolley, and traveling' the same alo said tramway,.substantially as shown an described. 7

5. In a hoisting machine the combination of a superior rotating supporting ,member, an inferjorreciprocatmg member supported thereb 'by parallell ar connections pivg to said mem rs, bsgntaible means on em reciprocating mem r or engaging loads," and suitable means for, severally,

hoisting and lowering the loads so reci rocating said last named member about sai pivotal points, and rotating said sugerior member, substantially as shown and esoribed. 6. In a hoisting machine, the combination of a superior supporting member, an

inferior reciprocating member supported thereby by parallelliearranged connections pivoted tosaid mem rs, suitable means on 25 said reciprocating member for engaging loads, and suitable means for, severally,

hoisting and lowering the loads so engaged, and reciprocating said last named member about said ivotal ints, substantially as 30 shown and escri ERNEST ow. TAYLOR. In presence of--' L. P. Lrrrs,

W R; F. Benn. 

